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For America's team, a week of sobering grief
A white Mercedes flipping over and skidding to a stop. The pained expression of a coach delivering bad news to his team. One Dallas Cowboys player dead, another leaving the Irving jail barefoot, with gashes in his head.
All of these images will fade. What's likely to remain is the lingering impact of the Dec. 8 car accident on the team and those who lead it.
Reporters for The Dallas Morning News gathered dozens of accounts of the crash — and the days that followed — to create a clearer picture of how the events unfolded and how the team responded to the tragedy and began to move forward.
Late on most Fridays, Cowboys players can be a nightclub's main attraction. Famous and with money to spend, they can afford top-shelf liquor, bring a club bragging rights and turn admiring fans into fawning customers.
In the hours before Cowboys lineman Josh Brent crashed his 2007 Mercedes, killing his best friend, Jerry Brown Jr., the two reportedly were partying hard with teammates at an exclusive North Dallas nightclub where expensive champagne flowed.
"I have 12 #Cowboys in theeee building!!!!!!!!!!!" tweeted Kimesha Jackson, a promoter for Club Privae, about 11 p.m. on Dec. 7. "These fools buying Ace on top of Ace!!!!"
Three hours later, the high-energy party that had begun with music, dancing and champagne came to a sobering stop. Brown, 25, was dead. Brent, 24, was on his way to jail and would soon face charges of intoxication manslaughter.
Soon the Cowboys — many of whom love to party — would learn of the loss of Brown. He was a new addition to the practice squad, a young man with lifelong dreams of playing in the NFL, a passenger who could have been saved by a phone call for a taxicab.
Drinking and driving
"We've all been in that situation," said Anthony Spencer, a Cowboys linebacker. "We've gone out and had a few drinks and then drove home — whatever the situation was. It really could have been any one of us in this locker room that it happened to."
Shortly after 2 a.m. on that Saturday, Dec. 8, Bill Gray headed home from work. He saw "a white car sliding on its roof" near the old Texas Stadium site in Irving. It had hit a curb and left deep tire tracks on the side of the road. Gray pulled over and called 911.
He saw a man get out of the flipped car, wobbly at first. The man — who he later learned was Brent — began to yell for help. The man looked around the car, searching for ways to get the passenger out as a fire sparked and began to grow.
Minutes later, Brent grabbed Brown's feet and ankles, pulled him through the passenger-side window and laid him a couple of feet from the burning car, Gray said. Brent slapped his friend's face and shook him, then anxiously looked around for help.
A police officer arrived, kneeled down and pressed his fingers to Brown's neck. Then, Gray said, the officer "dropped his hands and dropped his head" and slowly walked away.
An ambulance took Brown to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead from head and neck injuries.
Brent told police he'd been drinking at a club. He wouldn't say its name. Officers said they "could smell a moderate odor of alcohol emitting from his breath." And though the athlete refused a breath test for alcohol, he failed field sobriety tests. He reportedly could not maintain his balance and had to stop while walking to steady himself. He swayed when trying to stand on one leg.
He was arrested and — after Brown was declared dead — forced to have a mandatory blood alcohol test. That test would show he had consumed the equivalent of approximately 20 shots in four hours.
Around 9:15 a.m., Cowboys officials heard the news. Among Brent's first visitors in jail were two attorneys who work closely with the team. They told him not to say anything to anyone. A criminal attorney was on the way.
For players, things were off routine from the start of the day. "The players Saturday morning recognized that Josh and Jerry weren't here," said Cowboys coach Jason Garrett. "We were trying to figure out why, and then we got this information."
Breaking the news
At 10:45 a.m., Garrett and team owner Jerry Jones gathered the players in the Valley Ranch locker room and told them Brent and Brown had been involved in a serious accident.
About the same time, the two got word that the accident had been deadly. "But we couldn't tell our players that until … [Brown's] mom was informed," Garrett said. "And we tried to handle that as delicately as we could as an organization."
Around 1:30 p.m., as the team's charter plane sat on the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport tarmac, Garrett asked media, guests and airline employees to step off the aircraft.
He told his players that Brown was dead and that Brent — who was slated to start against the Bengals on Sunday — was in jail.
They gathered in prayer led by team chaplain Jonathan Evans before everyone reboarded the plane and flew on to Cincinnati. Cowboys wide receivers coach Jimmy Robinson would later describe the mood on the 813-mile flight as "very subdued, pretty quiet."
Hours earlier, George Milner had gotten a phone call as he was eating breakfast and reading a newspaper. He was at a hotel in Houston, where he was working on a case. Another lawyer was calling the hard-charging Dallas DUI lawyer on behalf of the Cowboys.
"When the Cowboys call and say they need help, you help them," Milner said.
Milner hopped onto a Southwest Airlines flight back to Dallas. He drove to Irving, where he met his newest client — the 321-pound defensive tackle Milner would later describe as "a giant, kind-hearted teddy bear with a heart as big as his body."
As Milner and Brent huddled for the first time, Brent's teammates arrived in Ohio about 5 p.m. They solemnly filed into the Hilton Hotel in downtown Cincinnati. No one talked. No pictures were allowed. DeMarcus Ware and Jason Witten were the only players to acknowledge the fans screaming their names — Ware with a somber nod and Witten with a wave.
Team leaders' meeting
Garrett gathered his three captains — Ware, Witten and quarterback Tony Romo. He asked them how to best manage the grieving team. He wanted to know whether meetings would be appropriate and whether it would help or hurt to follow their normal routine.
"Just tell me what you think," he told the three. "I'm not going to stand here and say, 'This is the way you handle it.' I can't say that I know the way to handle it."
They settled on a modified meeting schedule, and team members just hung out, eating snacks and finding their own ways to cope. At the team's Saturday evening chapel service, Garrett said there were "probably more players there than there normally would have been."
The next day, shortly after 10 a.m., an Irving municipal judge set Brent's bail at $500,000 — slightly more than his 2012 salary. Milner did not attend the arraignment but later slammed the bail amount, saying he'd expected something much lower.
"It's outrageous, it's offensive," he said. "They're doing this because it's a high-profile case and he's a Dallas Cowboy."
At noon Sunday, the game kicked off in Cincinnati. Brown's No. 53 jersey was draped in memorial on the team bench. Kicker Dan Bailey's field goal on the game's final play gave the Cowboys a hard-earned 20-19 victory and launched an emotional post-game tribute.
Defensive end Jason Hatcher held Brown's jersey above his head, then tightly embraced Garrett. Several players, including some Bengals, knelt in a circle at midfield and prayed. Brown's jersey was draped across Ware's leg.
As they left the field, fullback Lawrence Vickers sobbed uncontrollably, his head shaking.
"The last 24 hours have really been something I've never experienced," Romo said in the locker room. "It's been a roller coaster of emotions."
Jerry Jones spoke twice that day with Brown's mother, Stacey Jackson. Moments after the game ended, Garrett was on the phone with her. The coach told Jackson the game ball was for her son.
Back in North Texas, Milner and team officials contemplated leaving Brent in jail a second night and contesting the bail amount to a state district judge. But after Milner met with Brent and talked to team officials about 3 p.m. Sunday, they decided not to fight it, partly to avoid a media circus and to get Brent back into familiar surroundings.
"I told Josh … it was his call," Milner said. "He needed to get out of there. He needed to be with his family as quickly as possibly."
About 4:15 p.m., barefoot and appearing tired and shaken, Brent walked out of the Irving jail surrounded by news cameras. His right hand was wrapped in a bandage. Patches of his hair were missing. Police had seized his clothes, Milner said, so Brent wore a plain gray sweatshirt and blue pants.
"Jerry Brown was my very best friend and I'm just trying to deal with his death right now," Brent said before stepping into Milner's SUV.
On Monday, Garrett canceled the team practice. Brent went to Valley Ranch, met with the coach, saw doctors and visited teammates. Team officials finalized plans for a private memorial service to be held the next day at an Oak Cliff church.
The Cowboys arrived at that Tuesday afternoon service in luxury cars and two charter buses. At the request of Brown's mother, Brent sat in the front row near the Brown family. Garrett, surrounded by players and sprays of white flowers, presented her with the Cincinnati game ball, her son's framed jersey and a hard hat, an award he gives to an exceptional player after a game.
Support for Brent
She and the team's chaplain urged support for Brent, who the next day would be placed on the inactive/non-football illness list, effectively ending his season — and possibly a promising NFL career.
Three years earlier, he had nearly gambled away the ticket to his lifelong dream. In 2009, he was pulled over for driving drunk near the University of Illinois campus. No one was hurt. After 30 days in jail, he said he'd learned his lesson.
"You get a new outlook on life and some of the mistakes I've made," Brent told the Chicago Tribune then. "You realize a lot of things, how naïve and how dumb you can be sometimes."
But he did it again, and this time was different: Someone was dead. Not just anyone, but Brown — Brent's college teammate at Illinois, his best buddy, who had moved in with him upon joining the Cowboys' practice squad in October.
Cowboys defensive end Marcus Spears was reflective after the team's victory in Cincinnati. "As teammates you always wonder if there was something I could have said that would have changed his mind," he said.
"But at the end of the day, what's done is done."
Staff writers Brandon George and David Moore contributed to this report.


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DALE CITY, Va. – A new survey from AAA Mid-Atlantic and Transurban-Flor finds that a vast majority of drivers in Virginia along I-95 either drive distracted or have witnessed someone doing so.
Overall, 94 percent of drivers say they've witnessed someone driving distracted, with 56 percent admitting to using their phone while driving on I-95.
"They understand it's dangerous. They've heard about it on WTOP. But still, large numbers of them continue to do it," says Lon Anderson of AAA Mid-Atlantic.
Transurban-Flor and AAA Mid-Atlantic are teaming up with the Virginia Department of Transportation and Virginia State Police to launch "Orange Cone. No Phones." It's an effort to make drivers aware to pay special attention to the road while construction is underway on the I-95 Express Lanes, due to open late in 2014.
"The report findings are very unsettling. If anything, it shows how widespread the problem of distracted driving is," says Capt. Michael Spivey of Virginia State Police.
"Unfortunately, we live in a time where multitasking is the new norm. We've shifted this behavior from our officers to our cars. Multi-tasking may have a place in the workplace, but it has none on the road," Spivey says.
"This is even more important because with the new transportation package, we will be having all sorts of work zones across Virginia in the coming years," says Virginia Transportation Secretary Sean Connaughton.
The survey also found that nearly 20 percent admit to either texting while driving or reading a text while driving.
On July 1, texting while driving will become a primary offense in Virginia, meaning a police officer can pull you over for it. The fine will also climb from $20 to $125 for a first time offense.
"Folks have to be very much aware that if a police officer sees you driving with your head down or with your hands off the wheel, doing other things, he can pull you over for it. Hopefully this will end up becoming a hammer to prevent people from distracted driving," says Connaughton.
Just how dangerous is it? Nearly one-quarter of all drivers report a near miss or a traffic accident as a result of their distracted driving behavior. According to several studies, drivers who text are almost three times more likely to get into a crash than non-distracted drivers.
"Why would anyone want to complicate driving by operating an app on an iPhone, read an email from a Blackberry, or change the station on Pandora, especially when you're going through a work zone," says Spivey.
The survey involved 943 drivers who frequently travel through the I-95 Express Lanes construction area.
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NORTHVALE, N.J. - May 13, 2013 --A New Jersey boy who stopped breathing when he was hit in the chest by a baseball during a Little league game is home from the hospital.
Ian McGreevey is expected to make a full recovery.
His father, Ken, tells The Record newspaper it was the best present his wife could receive on Mother's Day.
The 8-year-old Northvale resident was playing on Saturday when he tried to steal third base and was hit in the chest by a ball thrown by the catcher. The boy collapsed.
The mother of a player from the opposing team, Maureen Renaghan, checked the boy's pulse and began performing CPR. She managed to get him breathing before paramedics arrived.
The third-grader will wear a heart monitor for the time being.
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Petition of the day
The petition of the day is:
Metropolitan Edison Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Docket: 12-4
Issue(s): (1) Whether, contrary to a decision of the Fifth Circuit, the Federal Power Act and filed rate doctrine permit a state public utility commission to deny recovery of FERC-mandated charges by classifying those costs differently from the entity responsible for administering the federal tariff on the ground that the tariff and FERC's orders do not "unambiguously" or "explicitly" foreclose the state's chosen classification; and (2) whether, contrary to a decision of the D.C. Circuit, "transmission line losses" reflect the costs of generating electricity rather than the costs of transmitting it.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (Pa. Commw. Ct.)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief of respondent Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in opposition
- Brief of respondents Met-Ed Industrial Users Group et al. in opposition
- Motion for leave to file amici brief and amicus brief of Electrical Engineers, Scientists, and Economists
- Motion for leave to file amici brief and amicus brief of Edison Electric Institute
- Motion for leave to file amici brief and amicus brief of Energy Association of Pennsylvania
- Reply of petitioners
Recommended Citation: Ben Cheng, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 1, 2012, 11:34 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/08/petition-of-the-day-318/


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Westat is currently seeking motivated individuals who are committed to excellence and are experienced in working with primary and secondary school students to work as Assessment Coordinators (ACs) for the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Assessment Coordinators will assist participating schools with activities to prepare for assessments and lead an assessment team of 3-4 Assessment Administrators (AAs) in conducting assessment sessions, using tablets with 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade students in participating schools across the country. This opportunity is ideal for retired educators.
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·Attend and successfully complete in-person training;
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Atmel Launches Unique Two-Channel LED Drivers for High CRI Professional and Consumer Lamps
MSL2021/23/24 Devices Deliver High Light Quality for Warm White High Color Rendering Index (CRI) LED Lamps with Industry's Most Efficient Power Management and Lowest Component Count
Feb 12, 2013, 08:00 EST
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategies in Light - Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, today announced three new two-channel solid state lighting (SSL) LED drivers that provide accurate color control for two-color LED light engines. In addition, the LED drivers deliver the most efficient power management, with the lowest component count, for high CRI LED lamps.
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Ideal for applications including general lighting, residential and commercial lighting, architectural lighting, and mood lighting, the LED drivers consist of the Atmel MSL2021, MSL2023, MSL2024; all can be accompanied with an Atmel AVR® MCU or ARM® processor-based MCU for a complete system solution in a variety of luminaires and lamp configurations.
The new MSL2021/23/24 LED devices have several distinct advantages when compared to existing LED drivers:
- The devices drive one dominant LED string with a linear controller and one color LED string with a low-side buck controller to achieve the target correlated color temperature (CCT) coordinate, and replicate the color spectrum to attain a high CRI value.
- The devices have a look-up table in the EEPROM so designers can program accurate profiles to follow the desired CCT compensation curve, lowering the overall bill of materials (BOM) cost.
- The linear controller for white LEDs in the device family adaptively controls the headroom of any AC/DC or DC/DC, isolated or non-isolated topology, while external MOSFETs give designers the flexibility of choosing LED currents and LED string lengths.
- There are several dimming options and I2C interface for additional flexibility and control.
"White point control of an LED lamp is a key challenge for designing high-performance general, architectural or mood lighting," said Tushar Dhayagude, Director of LED Products, Atmel Corporation. "The MSL2021/23/24 LED devices address this key issue by enabling the control of two strings, typically comprising of white and red or amber LEDs, to provide precise white color control, while providing extraordinary power efficiency, flexibility and wide power levels for the lamps."
Key features for the three new devices include:
- MSL2021 -- the first LED driver with integrated temperature compensation for the color LED string
- MSL2023 -- offering I2C serial port and internal pulse-width modulation (PWM) generators
- MSL2024 -- featuring individual PWM input pins
Pricing and Availability
The new devices are available now. Pricing for 1,000-piece quanties follows:
- MSL2021 starts at USD $3.10
- MSL2023 starts at USD $2.74
- MSL2024 starts at USD $2.52
To accelerate a design, evaluation kits are also available through your local sales representative. The new kits include an isolated AC/DC power supply, an integrated LED load board with one white and red LED string, and an on-board AVR MCU to I2C to USB/parallel bridge for programming the LED driver.
More Information
Atmel MSL2021/23/24 LED Drivers: www.atmel.com/Microsite/msl2021_msl2023_msl2024_led_drivers/default.aspx
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Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on industrial, consumer, communications, computing and automotive markets.
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Move to Tray Any Window Software - This is a free desktop enhancement utility used to move any window to the system tray (the bottom right corner of the screen, near clock). To move a window to the system tray - simply click right mouse button on window minize (like in images on this page).. Freeware download of Move to Tray Any Window Software 1.0, size 420.58 Kb.
Move Me, a migration utility for computers running Microsoft Windows, is the quick, easy, and inexpensive way to move all of your programs and files from your old computer to your new computer, while leaving the new computer's pre-installed software intact.
You will save hours or possibly days of work setting up your new machine, with. Free download of Move Me 2.52, size 2.89 Mb.
Genius Move is a remake of the classic Japanese puzzle Sokoban. The game consists in placing a number of pieces, in this particular case ice cubes, on a set point in the board using a character to push them. In the role of the traditional 'warehouse keeper', we will find a little penguin that is really well animated and. Free download of Genius Move 126.96.36.199, size 0 b.
Move DVD to iPod Converter Suite is an all-in-one iPod video Conversion solution. With this iPod Video Converter suit, you can convert both DVD media and video file media to iPod video/iPod movie. You can enjoy your favorite DVD and video clip on your iPod as a portable DVD Player. Now you can get this DVD to iPod Converter at a very competitive. Freeware download of Move DVD to iPod Converter 2 7, size 5.33 Mb.
A-PDF Preview and Move is a simple, lightning-fast desktop utility program that lets you real-time rename and move your multiple PDF document to specified directory while previewing them, with A-PDF Preview and Move, you can rename PDF file based on previewed PDF content or OCR PDF text easily. The complete set of A-PDF Preview and Move features. Free download of A-PDF Preview and Move 2.0, size 2.51 Mb.
How to move vCard File to Outlook ; Is this query also bothering you? Well, don't worry as we have the solution to your problems. vCard Converter is the tool for you that will solve all your problems in instant and accurate manner. The software, powered with many advanced features supports to help users move vCard file to Outlook in smart. Free download of Move vCard File to Outlook 3.9, size 1.60 Mb.
Have you decided to move from Windows Live Mail to Outlook 2010? If your answer is yes then try our HOT Windows Live Mail to Outlook Converter. This software has found excellent process to move from Windows Live Mail to Outlook 2010 with maintaining all email properties as-to,cc,bcc,sent/unsent items. Users are requested to follow these steps for. Free download of Move Windows Live Mail to Outlook 2010 7.1, size 2.47 Mb.
Move DBX to Outlook Converter Tool is more helpful and useful process. By using this process users can easily Move Mail from Outlook Express to Outlook. This utility program has good features for converting multiple emails from Outlook Express to Outlook at a time. The program is an exact solution for users with the help of this program user saves. Free download of Move DBX to Outlook 2.5, size 1.86 Mb.
Bunkspeed Move includes all the features of Bunkspeed Shot with the addition of animation. MOVE has all you need to make things move. You can generate serious moves and dynamic cameras, then render fast, with film quality results. Animate objects, parts, cameras, materials, lights and environments with a simple and familiar timeline interface.
Move Mouse is a simple application that simulates user activity. You can either move the mouse pointer, click the left mouse button, send a keystroke, or any combination of the three.
Keep sessions alive - ideal for people who work from home
Interrupt screensavers
Send mouse clicks to your screen
Send keystrokes
. Free download of Move Mouse 2.5.4, size 0 b.
Auto Mouse Move With Typing is a handy and reliable application designed to record mouse movements / keyboard actions and replay the scenario at a later time.
Auto Mouse Move With Typing saves your mouse gestures click by click, together with its position and delay. Replaying the macro will simulate the exact same mouse and keyboard. Free download of Auto Mouse Move With Typing 188.8.131.52, size 0 b.
Mass move was specially built as a simple, handy and easy-to-use application that is supposed to allow you to move files from one location to another.
Mass move was designed usign the Java programming language and can run on multiple platforms.
. Free download of Mass move 1.8, size 0 b.
LD Move is a handy and reliable application designed to enable you to copy files/folders with the possibility to pause/resume the process.
allows you to drag and drop files, and decide where each individual object is to be moved. It allows pause/resume functionality, and you control it using the simple interface.
. Free download of LD Move 1.0, size 0 b.
You choose the file extension, the incoming and the destination folder. Then IFAM will automatically move the files arriving in the incoming folder to the destination folders. This is very useful for FTP server or PTP software.. Free download of PAMO Incoming Files Automatic Move 1, size 3.30 Mb.
move Abfahrtsmonitor - zeigt fdoDsr eine gewdoTAhlte Haltestelle die ndoTAchsten Abfahrten an. Herausgegeben von OMNIPART Verkehrsdienstleistungen GmbH & Co. KG. Freeware download of move Abfahrtsmonitor 18.104.22.168, size 73.40 Kb.
If you want to Move DBX to PST, then you better do it with DBX to PST Conversion tool, for it enables you to go through the whole technicality, all unscathed. It is merely 3-4 steps to the complete conversion of DBX to PST, all the emails would get converted even before you get hint at the completion of the process. Move DBX to PST with the likes. Free download of Move DBX to PST 3.5.1, size 1.86 Mb.
Do you need to move your data to MS SQL Server? dbQwikSync2 is a lightweight easy to use data migration wizard that will save you hours of frustration trying to move data to your MS SQL server. How does it work? 4 Easy steps: 1)Select you source local database; 2)Select your target MS SQL database 3)Pick the tables to move 4)Click Sync! **Highlight. Free download of dbQwikSync2MSSQL 1, size 2.03 Mb.
Do you need to move your data to mySQL???? dbQwikSync2 is a lightweight easy to use data migration wizard that will save you hours of frustration trying to move data to your mySQL server. How does it work? 1)-Select you source local database 2)Select your target MySQL database 3)Pick the tables to move 4)Click Sync! Highlight Features are: Easy to. Free download of dbQwikSync2mySQL 1, size 2.03 Mb.
Move My Printers is a suite of applications consisting of the Move My Printers Deployment Toolkit, Move My Printers Engine and the My Print Driver Information applications which enhance a Network Administrators ability to migrate and maintain client printers. Move My Printers simplifies, automates and manages the process of moving client network. Free download of Move My Printers 03.01.00, size 8.60 Mb.


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Do you ever call in sick when you are actually feeling just fine?
If you're like 30 percent of American workers, the answer is "yes," according to a new survey by CareerBuilder. Real or feigned, more people call in around the winter holidays, with about one-third of companies saying they take more sick calls during that period.
But, some staffers take "sick time" a step further and come up with ridiculous, dog-ate-my-homework-style excuses, including one related to the Hunger Games.
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